Bandai Namco’s new trailer for Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s desert wasteland manga, Sand Land, dedicated what may presumably be essentially the most mental advertising and marketing track selection of 2024 by having it accompanied by the enduring 2001 dance hit, Darude’s Sandstorm. While of us rightfully misplaced their minds on the trailer’s apropos track selection, eagle-eyed Dragon Ball Z followers noticed a clue towards a Dragon Ball Z crossover.
At the tip of the Sand Land Sandstorm trailer, characters Beelzebub, Thief, and Sheriff Rao are sucked into an underwater present. When the trailer fades again in, Beelzebub seems, seemingly teleported from his arid desert to the wasteland of one other phrase. Folks within the Sand Land Sandstorm YouTube trailer remark part had been fast to choose up how the wasteland seems an terrible lot like an iconic locale from Dragon Ball Z.
While Dragon Ball Z has a slew of non-descript barren areas its warriors famously use to struggle fearsome villains (just like the rocky Gizard Wasteland), the wasteland on the finish of the Sand Land trailer seems to be Break Wasteland. Break Wasteland, just like the aforementioned battleground of Goku and Vegeta’s first struggle, is critical as a result of it served the area the place Piccolo educated Gohan within the Saiyan arc.
Here’s what the picture in Sand Land seems like.
And here is the setting in Dragon Ball Z, as proven in Dragon Ball FighterZ.
The largest query on each Dragon Ball fan’s thoughts is whether or not or not this stinger trailer second is Bandai Namco teasing a crossover occasion with Dragon Ball Z in Sand Land to honor Toriyama’s passing in March. While there is not any official phrase on whether or not Toriyama’s wasteland story will see a collaboration of types together with his shonen battle epic, it could be completely in line for Bandai Namco to host a crossover occasion between Toriyama’s characters in Sand Land.
Toriyama’s creations have a monitor file of creating visitor appearances in his extra contemporry works. The most notorious anime crossover is Dr. Slump’s Arale three appearances in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Super. Her first two appearances noticed the android help Goku in trouncing Toa Pai Pai and General Blue in Dragon Ball. Her third visitor appearnce noticed her overpower Vegeta in Dragon Ball Super.
Seeing as how the Break Wasteland is tied to Piccolo and Gohan, it could be protected to theorize the Demon King and his younger Saiyan apprentace may be part of forcess with Sand Land’s Fiend Prince when the sport launches on April 26 on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and PC.
Isaiah Colbert is a contract author at IGN.
